The number of musicians that have signed a “No Music for ICE” letter pledging a boycott of Amazon-sponsored festivals and other partnerships until the company ends support of human rights violations through contracts with ICE and other related US government agencies has now passed 1000. Deerhoof, Ted Leo, Álex Anwandter,…
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New Spotify Kids App Launches In Beta
Spotify has launched in beta a new standalone app for children called Spotify Kids. Exclusive to Premium Family subscribers, the new app is intended for children 3 and older. Currently, the app is only available in Ireland and filters out explicit content, in addition to offering kid-friendly playlists that span…
SiriusXM Adds 210K Subs, Pandora Adds Just 33K In Q3
SiriusXM added 210,000 subscribers to its satellite radio service last quarter, while it’s Pandora streaming music service added just 33,000 paid subscribers. By contrast, Spotify added 5 million paid users in the same three months. Shares of Sirius XM declined 0.5% in premarket trading Thursday, on missed profit expectations. THIRD…
Labels Now Able To Pay Spotify To Promote Their Music
UPDATED: Spotify users may already be familiar with ‘Music For You’ notifications which sometimes pop up on the platform and now, in a new test run by Spotify, those notifications are for sale, allowing artists to promote directly to listeners without a need for third-party applications. _______________________________ Guest post by…
Spotify [SPOT] Stock Surges 16.17%
Spotify [SPOT] stock surged $19.15 or 16.17% closing at $140.20 on Monday after the streamer reported strong user growth and a surprise profit. The stock retreated just 1% in early trading on Tuesday.
MORE: Spotify Passes 113M Paid Subscribers As Ave…
Spotify To Monetize Artist/Fan Relationship With A ‘Two-Sided Marketplace’
Spotify founder Daniel Ek is committed to transforming Spotify For Artists into a "two-sided marketplace" which can monetize the relationship that the 465,000 artists that use the currently free artist marketing and data platform. The streamer also revealed that a Two-Sided Marketplace would be "margin enhancing" and is at the…
29 Ways To Market Your Music Immediately
With this set of actionable bullet points, Chris Robley fires off twenty-nine ways in which bands and artists can promote their music right now. _____________________________ By Chris Robley from CD Baby’s DIY Musician Make a lyric video. Create a playlist of artists who influenced the new album or single. Pin…
Everything Spotify Wants You To Know About Q3 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Spotify just posted another marginally profitable quarter for Q3 2019. With it came solid user growth and an increase in podcast listening. The streamer produced an infographic to illustrate the generally positive results and omitting the continued decline in average revenue per user. MORE: Spotify Passes 113M Paid Subscribers As…
Spotify Passes 113M Paid Subscribers As Average Revenue Per User Decline Continues
Spotify grew to 248 million monthly average users in the last three months and beat analysts’ expectations on paid Premium subscribers, reaching 113 million, the company reported in a Q3 letter to shareholders Monday. That’s a growth of 5 million subscribers in 3 months. Podcast listening was also up 39%…
This Week In Music Commentary
This week, commentators inside the industry stepped up to the mic to share their thoughts on why streaming royalties will always be too low to make a living off of. and why musicians need to learn to say no, plus T-Pain shares the truth about cancelled tours that most artists…